From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Oct 6 06:47:31 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) id GAA28267 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 06:47:31 -0700 Received: from longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (longstreet.larc.nasa.gov [128.155.25.82]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.6.12/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA28262 for ; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 06:47:27 -0700 Received: (from branson@localhost) by longstreet.larc.nasa.gov (8.6.11/8.6.9) id JAA01262; Fri, 6 Oct 1995 09:49:30 -0400 From: Branson Matheson Message-Id: <199510061349.JAA01262@longstreet.larc.nasa.gov> Subject: Re: not really sure where this one goes... To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett A. Wollman) Date: Fri, 6 Oct 1995 09:49:30 -0400 (EDT) Cc: afoxman@maxwell.syr.edu, questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <9510051619.AA02656@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett A. Wollman" at Oct 5, 95 12:19:04 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL21] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 942 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk > > < said: > > > After some checking I found that the /etc/rc file mounts all nfs > > mountpoints BEFORE loading the nfs client/server daemons, thereby cutting > > off the possibility of my machine connecting to itself due to the lack of > > the nfsd. > > You're not supposed to NFS-mount yourself. You might wanna look at the possibility of using linkfs instead.. it is supported in amd and works very nicely... especially for those who want their users to see a standard path. -branson -- MATHESON, E BRANSON E.B.MATHESON@LaRC.NASA.GOV Mail Stop 488 COMPUTER SCIENCES CORPORATION NASA Langley Research Center Assigned to Operations Support Division Hampton, VA 23681-0001 Phone +1 804 864-9700 http://longstreet.larc.nasa.gov/~branson/index.html